By Emma
Decent playlists are an essential for traveling, whether for a quick day trip or a sixth month around the world. Compiled below are five travel playlists for very (I mean VERY) specific situations that we all experience on a regular basis while traveling. I tried really hard not to repeat too many artists, but let’s be honest, I’ve listened to the same three bands since high school so here we are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Disassociating on the Second Half of an Eight Hour Plane Ride
- Trasatlanticism – Death Cab for Cutie
- Rivers and Roads – The Head and the Heart
- Tiger Striped Sky – Roo Panes
- There Will be Time – Baaba Maal and Mumfort and Sons
- Big Jet Plane – Angus & Julia Stone
- White Horses – Darlingside
- Empire – Of Monsters and Men
- Shrike – Hozier
- Rose Petals – S. Carey
- Nocturne – Blanco White
- Visions of China – The Lumineers
- Why Woman – Glen Hansard
- The King of Norway – The Donnys The Amys
Pretending Like Your Road Trip is Longer Than Two Days
- Sleep on the Floor – The Lumineers
- When You Were Young – The Killers (On second thought, probably the entire Sam’s Town album??)
- Green Light – Lorde
- Home – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
- Young Blood (acoustic) – Noah Kahan
- Never Come Back Again – Austin Plaine
- Not Gunna Take Me – BAILEN
- The Long Way Around – The Dixie Chicks
- Getaway Car – Taylor Swift
- Miss Missing You – Fall Out Boy
- Yellow Lines – Brendan James
- Castle On The Hill – Ed Sheeran
- Tear in my Heart – Twenty One Pilots
- Where You Wanna Go (feat. Emily Hearn) – Graham Colton and Emily Hearn
- Highway Vagabond – Miranda Lambert
Ignoring Financial Responsibilities While Half-Drunk on the Beach at one p.m.
- Sedona – Houndmouth
- Take Me Away – Wild Belle
- Barcelona – George Ezra
- Let’s Hurt Tonight – OneRepublic
- I Know You (acoustic) – Craig David and Bastille
- Saturday Sun – Vance Joy
- Malibu – Miley Cyrus
- Fireflies – Owl City
- Coração – The National Parks
- Flowers in Your Hair – The Lumineers
- Something Tells Me – BAILEN
- Easy Rider – Eddie Berman
- Wake Me Up – Avicii
“I’m Already Searching For Apartments Here”
- Welcome to New York – Taylor Swift
- Speed Limit (acoustic) – Boyce Avenue
- City Song – Grace VanderWaal
- Catch My Disease – Ben Lee
- Hand in My Pocket – Alanis Morisette
- Seventeen – Alessia Cara
- Concrete Jungle (Acoustic) – Au/Ra
- Riptide – Vance Joy
- Don’t Know Why – Norah Jones
- Patricia – Florence and the Machine
- High Hopes – Panic! At the Disco
- Happier – Marshmello and Bastille
Staring Dramatically Out of Public Transportation Windows
- Angela – The Lumineers
- Don’t Let Me Go – Allman Brown
- Traveling Song – Ryn Weaver
- Born Without Borders – The New Schemantics
- Work Song – Hozier
- Good Thing – Sam Smith
- Follow My Feet – The Unlikely Candidates
- Blue Jeans – Lana Del Ray
- Hold Back the River – James Bay
- Let Her Go – Passenger
- Re: Stacks – Bon Iver
- Pompeii – Bastille
- Alive – VAN HØF
- May I Miss You – Family of the Year
- Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson